The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-02-17
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL.
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
CONSIDERING THE FISHERY BILL.

Unable to Decide Which Bill to Submit,
the One From the Sub Committee or
the Senate Bill-Trade Dollar Redemp-
tion-COngressional Program-NOtes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-There was a meet
ing Of the house committee on foreign affairs
this morning for the purpose of considering
the report and bill prepared by the sub-com-
mittee (AIessrs. Belmont, Clements and Rice)
to which was referred the fisheries bills. Mr.
Rice occupied nearly all of the time in oppos-
ing the bill prepared by the subcommittee,
and favoring the senate BILL so that when the
hour came for adjournment the question
whether the bill prepared by the sub-com-
mite Or the senate bill should be adopted by
the majority of the full committee was pend
ing.
The subcommittee bill provides that here
after whenever the president shall be salts
fled that vessels of the United States are de-
MED in ports or territorial waters of the
British Dominions in North America, rights
to which such vessels are entitled by treaty
or by the law of nations, or are denied the
reasonable privileges usually accorded be-
tween neighboring and friendly nations, he
may, by proclamation, prohibit from enter
ing the ports of the United States, or from
exercising such privileges therein, as he may
in his discretion, by such proclamation, de-
fine; vessels owned wholly or in part by
subject of her Britannia majesty, and coming
or arriving from any place in the
Dominion of Canada, or Newfound-
land, excepting such vessels, shall
be in distress of navigation and Of needed re-
pairs or supplies therefor, and he may also
forbid the entrance or importation, either by
land or water, into the United States of any
merchandise from Canada or Newfoundland,
or any locomotive, car or other vehicle and
upon proof that the privileges secured by Ar
ticle 20 of the treaty concluded between the
United States and Great Britain on the 9th
day Of May 1871, are denied as to merchan
disc arriving at the ports of British North
America the president may also forbid the
exercise of the like privileges as to merchan-
disc, arriving in any of the ports Of the
United States, and any person violating or
attempting to violate the provision of any
proclamation issued under this act, shall for
felt 1000 and Shall be guilty of a msde-
meanor, and upon conviction shall be liable
to imprisonment not exceeding two years, or
both
And if the master or other person in charge
of any vessel thereby excluded from the ports
of the United States shall do any act forbid
den by such proclamation aforesaid, such
vessel shall be liable to forfeiture to the
United States; and any merchandise and any
car, locomotive or other vehicle coming into
the United States in violation of any procla-
nation shall be forfeited to the United
States.
The president is authorized to appoint
commission to proceed to such places in the
United States or elsewhere, as may be desig-
mated by the secretary Of state, to take testi-
mony in relation to the losses and injuries in
ficted since the 3lst Of December, 1855, by
the British authorities upon citizens Of Tire
United States engaged in the fisheries on the
northeast coasts of British North America.